I'm having some trouble with installing graph-tool in my Debian Jessie
distribution with apt-get. Following the installation instructions I can
either add "jessie" as the distro, in which case the packages are not found:
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
If I try "sid" or "stretch" I get dependency errors instead:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-graph-tool : Depends: libboost-coroutine1.62.0 but it is not
installable
....
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Is there any way to get graph-tool for Jessie (apart from compiling it from
source)? I've been using it on my MacBook, and would really like to have it
here as well. It's a great module!
2017-05-02 14:57 GMT+02:00 hans <hannes.margraf(a)gmail.com>:
Hi,
I'm having some trouble with installing graph-tool in my Debian Jessie
distribution with apt-get. Following the installation instructions I can
either add "jessie" as the distro, in which case the packages are not
found:
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
If I try "sid" or "stretch" I get dependency errors instead:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-graph-tool : Depends: libboost-coroutine1.62.0 but it is not
installable
....
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Is there any way to get graph-tool for Jessie (apart from compiling it from
source)? I've been using it on my MacBook, and would really like to have it
here as well. It's a great module!
Best regards,
hans
Hi Hans,
it seems that jessie is no longer supported, only stretch and sid are. I
suppose that this is due to lack of support of some other library (i.e.
boost).
However, you cannot choose stretch or sid if your distro is not one of
those. So you need to either upgrade to stretch or sid (I did that just
last week) and then install graph-tools, or you no longer can use it.
thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately I cannot update from jessie,
since the machine is at my university and the responsible system admin
would not be happy about this. Is it possible to get the "last stable"
release for jessie?
granted, jessie is a little old, but it *is* the current official stable
release of debian. So there might be some general interest in having access
to an older graph tools version.